Karavansara

East of Constantinople, West of Shanghai


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The five most popular Karavansara posts in 2015

One of the frequent topics we bloggers debate here in the C Block of the blogsphere is how to gauge the success of a blog.

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Hits are the standard measure – how many people visited the blog through the week, the month, the year.
Comments are also an important parameter – because they measure engagement… that is, how involved those visitors were with the contents of the blog.
And then there’s the most popular posts – because they give you an idea of what people like about your blog.

So, here’s the Top Five posts for 2015, the ones that got the most views… Continue reading →


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Brightness

snake_400x400So, among the thing this Christmas brought me there is a pretty fastidious problem with my left eye.
Nothing tragic, I’m not wearing an eyepatch, but apparently too many hours spent in front of a monitor have taken their toll.

While I wait for my doctor to be back from his vacations, the only solution so far has been
a . reduce the time spent writing and reading (urgh!)
b . dim the monitor’s brightness.

And here things get tricky… Continue reading →


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Other People’s Pulps: Chandu the Magician (1932)

While I’m still trying to decide what I will watch for New Year’s Eve, I spent about an hour and a half having lots of fun with Chandu the Magician, a 1932 film directed by William Cameron Menzies and Marcel Varnel.
Maybe not exactly a Christmas movie, but quite a treat1.

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